Most of the coaching institutes give this impression to the students that they possess certain secrets/tricks which they can pass on to the students if they get enrolled in their organization. They also give the impression that they alone know what the students should be taught and what they should not be taught; and they discourage the students from asking questions of their own and advise them to strictly adhere to what they are taught.However, I hold the opinion that there is no secret of improving the academic competence of a person other than learning the concepts by his/her own efforts, one by one, unambiguously and systematically. Of course, there are certain obvious things like time management in the examination hall and time management before appearing for the examination, but that too can be done by the student’s own initiative and practice. The basic fact is that an individual can grow primarily by his/her own efforts and not by simply listening to some lectures. So, enrolment in any coaching institute of the world cannot be a substitute for hard work and practice on the part of the student. Basically, a person attains the growth of his/her mind when he or she struggles to find the solution to a problem which he or she is finding difficult to solve. So, I advise you to perspire for hours and days on several occasions, if not at a stretch, before you take the help of some expert. A good coaching institute should be a good guide to her students under such situations. And we aim at becoming one such organization, where priority will be given to clearing the doubts and solving the problems raised by the students rather than compelling them to simply follow what we have to offer.
There is a very simple reason why the coaching institutes generally discourage the students from raising their own doubts and ask the students to simply follow what is taught in the class: the teachers themselves do not know the subject-matter thoroughly; they fear that they will not be able to solve the problems which they have not practised before coming to the class; they fear that the shallowness of their knowledge will be exposed if they are asked some new problem.
Of course, there is nothing wrong if a teacher accepts that he is not in a position to do a problem quickly in the class, and he simply gives the guidelines by which he would like to try to solve the problem and postpones the actual solution to some later class. But such situations should not be very frequent for any teacher to be able to teach confidently. The usual coaching institutes do not allow the students to ask whatever problems they have because in such a situation such embarrassing situations will become a recurring feature rather than an exception.
So, a teacher in a normal coaching institute usually prepares a few selected problems for the class, and asks the students to simply follow what he wants to teach (which is what he has prepared).
It is well-known that in the IIT-JEE examination, they usually ask fresh problems, problems which are neither mere repetition of the previously asked questions nor frequently asked questions with simple changes in the numerical values of the data. They ask questions with some newness in it. So it is ironical how the institutes, claiming to prepare the students for IIT-JEE, discourage them from raising new questions of their choice.
So, the situation in the normal IIT-JEE coaching institutes is that the teachers, who are themselves not capable of solving new/unseen problems, are coaching the students to prepare for an examination where they will be required to solve fresh problems.
The situation is like that because the coaching institutes are simply interested in making money. They spend crores of rupees on advertising, attract the students and earn money. Many students do feel cheated after getting admission to the coaching institutes. But they have no way out. They have already made the full payment and no coaching institute in this country, to our knowledge, gives the freedom to the students to get a refund if they are not satisfied with the teaching in the respective coaching institute and if they want to withdraw from that coaching institute. So the students feel entrapped and helpless.
We are taking the bold step to refund the money for the remaining period if a student wants to withdraw from our institute at any point of time.
Obviously, we need to keep a very, very competent group of teachers in such a situation because we alone will be the losers otherwise. Accordingly, we are willing to pay a high salary to the teachers and only those teachers will be taking classes in our institute whose teaching ability and knowledge is beyond doubt for us. We have a very high standard for the selection of the teachers. Normally, a teacher will be allowed to teach students in our institute only after he is able to deliver lectures of high standard before experts on each and every chapter of the subject he or she is going to teach.
We are so particular about the standard of the teachers because we feel that the students can get benefited if and only if the teachers teaching in the institute have a sound knowledge of the subject. Otherwise, they will simply misguide and confuse the students, laying a weak foundation for the student’s career. Some existing coaching institutes rely upon the teachers who can get them a good feedback from the students whom the particular teacher is teaching, not caring at all what is the real level of competence of the teacher. In such a situation the teachers are tempted to cheat the students by adopting skills by which they can wrongly impress the students. But we have adopted a policy where the teachers have to deliver lectures and answer various questions raised by an expert group on each and every chapter before any teacher is allowed to teach.
It is a well-known fact that heat flows from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature under normal  circumstances. Similarly, a student can get benefited from a teacher only if the teacher is more knowledgeable than the student.
So, dear students, have faith in your own efforts and hard labour.  Do not feel shy in clearing your doubts from the teachers, more so when you are attending the class in any coaching institute. Remember the teacher is not obliging you by answering your questions. You have paid a high fee for that. So it is a matter of right for you to get your doubts cleared.

With good wishes

    Yours sincerely

     Shyam Rudra Pathak
     Managing Director
     Yogyata Samvardhan Sansthan

If one does some moral business honestly then he ends up doing social service, even though the apparent motivation behind that is not social service